In this blog consulting series we are talking about setting up ten websites for ten dollars a year.  We are going to start a group of websites about alternative energy and then we will put adsense on them and find some good affiliate programs to see if we can begin to make some money from the sites.

We need to get a domain name to get things started.  This is what we are going to spend the ten dollars on.  We are going to do our domain name research at Good News Domains, and then we will purchase the domain name (with tax the domain name will actually cost 10.19, so I rounded down for the title of the series).  Good News Domains will then provide us with free hosting for our ten websites.  We will set the main one up with the domain name we purchased, and then we will set up the others as sub-domains with the keywords we researched earlier.

Alternative energy is very competitive and so we had to get creative to get a domain name that would work.  We finally decided on and purchased Alternative Energy Information (www.alternativeenergyinformation.net).  We will set this site up with the free linux hosting provided by Good News domains.  The next step will be to set up the sub-domain sites.  This method will work fine as we are going to be expecting the search engines to bring traffic to our sites.   Over the next couple of week we will be getting the following sites going.

Renewable Alternative Energy

Future Alternative Energy

etf Alternative Energy

Mutual Fund Alternative Energy

Business Alternative Energy

Alternative Energy Funds

Alternative Energy Investments

Alternative Energy Stocks

Alternative Energy Sources

Getting these sites started will require us to create MYSQL databases and then installing Wordpress for each of the sites.  This process is really fairly easy once you get used to it.  It requires some knowledge of how to use FTP (file transfer protocol), and how to unzip files.  Good News  Domains provides an FTP program or you can use Firezilla or any other FTP program you are comfortable with. We will continue this blog consulting series of articles after we get the sites up and running.